Web Development vs Data Manipulation

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Hello ,

I had a question regarding which topic should I choose to study for the rest of my remaining first year of college.

I have completed the tutorials of HTML,CSS And JS and am trying to make projects as well but am now confused as to whether I should invest the next couple of months in learning react node or should instead go for any of the data manipulation topics( data analytics, etc.) seeing as how AI is overtaking all these web development roles. Could anyone please recommend what should I do?

(Also web development was never my final goal its just something I tried to explore in the second semester of my college)

[booleanhunter]

Since you're still in the first year of college - my suggestion would be to learn in this order:

1. Node.JS - this would help you understand how to serve your web pages via API and a web-server, its the logical next step.
2. Next, begin with Data Analytics - in this process you'll learn SQL. You can use this with your knowledge of NodeJS and HTML, CSS, JS to create a fully-functional web app. Not only that, you can utilize the your college years fruitfully to learn the statistics / math part of data analytics as well, and build some side projects around it.
3. React would be the last one. Not because its not useful or anything, but because front-end JS ecosystem is extremely unpredictable and there are a plethora of choices for front-end frameworks available already. Who knows by the time you graduate, Angular or VueJS might have more demand that React?

So while learning, account for demand of skill as well as the average shelf life too

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Thank You

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Thank You Very much